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Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (20 Apr 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: My Department is currently undertaking the necessary analysis to identify what measures might be included in a Sustainable Travel and Transport Bill. I regard the enactment of this Bill as a very important measure in the promotion of Smarter Travel in this Country and it is my intention to publish the Bill as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Smarter Travel: Smarter Travel (20 Apr 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: Quarterly updates on progress in the implementation of the Smarter Travel Policy in 2009 have been published electronically on http://www.smartertravel.ie/progress-updates. The Smarter Travel policy also commits to a biennial report to Government, with the first report to be submitted in late 2010.

Energy Security: Motion. (20 Apr 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: I welcome the motion, to which there are many commendable aspects and which concentrates our mind on a very important issue, namely, to ensure we have energy security. I am a bit disappointed the issue of energy security is taken in isolation. I always tend to put peak oil, energy security and climate change into the same area, and we cannot address one of these three issues without...

Energy Security: Motion. (20 Apr 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: That is fair enough and it is valuable to focus our attention on that area, but I would tend not to isolate the issue from the other two and it is worth considering all three of them at the same time. It is useful to draw people's attention to the challenges we face. As we have seen over the past week, things can quickly change about assumptions that might have previously been taken for...

Energy Security: Motion. (20 Apr 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: I agree that public representatives must work with the community they represent, but we need leadership on the energy security and climate change issue. We have to marry the concerns of local communities about planning with the need to address the three concerns I mentioned earlier. The third example is in the area of transportation. The Green Party has argued long and hard for stronger...

Energy Security: Motion. (20 Apr 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: This will happen over the next few years, but it will not happen if Deputy McManus from the Labour Party argues for an outer orbital motorway running from Dundalk across to the Wicklow mountains.

Energy Security: Motion. (20 Apr 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: It is not going to happen when the Fine Gael Party argues for yet more motorway investment. If we are to make public transport work, we must make the capital investment. There have been reductions in expenditure on roads and in general expenditure, but if the two Opposition parties believe that when the money comes back, we should invest it all in roads, then we will not address the energy...

Energy Security: Motion. (20 Apr 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: Thank you.

Energy Security: Motion. (20 Apr 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: Through the Chair, I have an issue with that.

Energy Security: Motion. (20 Apr 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: I would like Deputy McManus to say how she is going to get it through the Wicklow mountains.

Energy Security: Motion. (20 Apr 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: Is she going to go through the Glen of Imaal or Glendalough?

Energy Security: Motion. (20 Apr 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: The Deputy should name her route.

Energy Security: Motion. (20 Apr 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: That is the beauty of Opposition.

Energy Security: Motion. (20 Apr 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: I am sorry, Chairman.

Flood Relief. (31 Mar 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: I thank Deputy Ring.

Flood Relief. (31 Mar 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: I share the Deputies' concern about repeated flooding in the Roundfort-Hollymount area of County Mayo and the need for remedial action. That area around Ballinrobe, Coolabaun, Kilcommon, Rahard and Caravilla is one of Ireland's finest and I express my best wishes to all those affected by the flooding in that area. Indeed, my own home was flooded six years ago and I know all about having to...

Rural Environment Protection Scheme. (31 Mar 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: I thank the Deputies for their best wishes on my ministerial appointment. Our islands are a rich repository of our culture, archaeology and social heritage. Long may that continue. For the past 30 years, I have gone to the islands such as Inisheer and Inishbofin off Connemara for my holidays. I have yet to have the privilege to visit Clare Island and the other Mayo islands but I am sure I...

Rural Environment Protection Scheme. (31 Mar 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: The first stage payment of 75% for 2009 is on the way to another 666 applicants who will receive payment in the next few days. The other cases are still under query. To meet the requirements of EU regulations, applications for REPS payments have to go through an exhaustive series of administrative checks before payment can be released. In a significant number of cases, those checks raised...

Rural Environment Protection Scheme. (31 Mar 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: I apologise to the Deputy. I have only one copy of my speech and I am sure the parliamentary reporters may need it; they can put it on the public record as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Rail Network: Rail Network (23 Mar 2010)

Ciarán Cuffe: Question 371: To ask the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 299 of 25 November 2008, if Iarnród Éireann has undertaken or is planning to undertake any works at North Esk freight yard or at Kent station, Cork which would prevent or add significant costs to the potential reconnection of North Esk freight depot to the rail network; if so, if he will outline those...